yay mountains
Continuing with my summer's general trend of life sucking enough such that I feel the need to complain about it on livejournal, followed by a bunch of awesome stuff happening, my weekend was totally awesome.
By weekend of course I mean the time between then I leave work on thursdays and when I go back to work on tuesdays.
So, on thursday evening, I went on an epic 30k bike journey around Vancouver, from Trout Lake to downtown and then around the seawall and then to "Telus World of Science," where by very odd coincidence we happened to meet up with a group of girls about to embark on a 10:30 mass. One of which was a long lost (and cute!) friend of mine from back in the day at BCIT. We had lost touch for almost 2 years! What a small city we live in.
So that was the first leg of the weekend triathlon. The next was on friday, when we went to the Taboo Revue burlesque show at the Cobalt. It was quite a good show, very humorous and um. informative. And who am I to not enjoy drinking and scantily clad girls?
The final leg involved driving out to Squamish with spookyfish and precision_flail and embarking on what ended up being a 40k hike/camping trip, including climbing several mountains. The most awesome one we climbed (the Opal Cone) was actually an extinct volcano. There was even some leftover snow and everything! It was the most epic hike that any of us had ever done. By the end we were all complaining about pain in our various appendages every few minutes, but overall was an amazing experience. Some parts of the trail were treacherous, like the part where you have about 4 inches (at most) of trail and giant cliff on either side. And the dirt slides out from under your feet a lot. But we made it!
I have lots of pictures, but am too lazy to manually resize them and put them on the internets. Anyone know of a nice small open-source program I can use to resize images? while preserving decent image quality...
Yesterday at work, there was a power surge at about 2:15, which knocked out one of the circuits in the basement. Initially the emergency lighting came on, but we still had power, and about half of us had no internet. (Funny how we are still expected to work when we have no internet, even though 90% of our applications require a network connection to function) So, some people started noticing this funny burning smell coming from the air conditioning, and soon afterwards they evacuated the entire building, and after screwing around outside for an hour and a half, I ended up going home 2 hours early. :D
I really want to go to Cedar Sky, but since most of the people I normally go to parties with aren't going, I might just end up staying at home. :(
I also am sorta interested in the meat-oriented party at SFU on friday, but since I'm a vegetarian, I'm concerned that they might kick me out due to distinct ideological differences. That and I sorta have moral objections to bacon, and ruining chocolate by covering bacon with it.
By weekend of course I mean the time between then I leave work on thursdays and when I go back to work on tuesdays.
So, on thursday evening, I went on an epic 30k bike journey around Vancouver, from Trout Lake to downtown and then around the seawall and then to "Telus World of Science," where by very odd coincidence we happened to meet up with a group of girls about to embark on a 10:30 mass. One of which was a long lost (and cute!) friend of mine from back in the day at BCIT. We had lost touch for almost 2 years! What a small city we live in.
So that was the first leg of the weekend triathlon. The next was on friday, when we went to the Taboo Revue burlesque show at the Cobalt. It was quite a good show, very humorous and um. informative. And who am I to not enjoy drinking and scantily clad girls?
The final leg involved driving out to Squamish with spookyfish and precision_flail and embarking on what ended up being a 40k hike/camping trip, including climbing several mountains. The most awesome one we climbed (the Opal Cone) was actually an extinct volcano. There was even some leftover snow and everything! It was the most epic hike that any of us had ever done. By the end we were all complaining about pain in our various appendages every few minutes, but overall was an amazing experience. Some parts of the trail were treacherous, like the part where you have about 4 inches (at most) of trail and giant cliff on either side. And the dirt slides out from under your feet a lot. But we made it!
I have lots of pictures, but am too lazy to manually resize them and put them on the internets. Anyone know of a nice small open-source program I can use to resize images? while preserving decent image quality...
Yesterday at work, there was a power surge at about 2:15, which knocked out one of the circuits in the basement. Initially the emergency lighting came on, but we still had power, and about half of us had no internet. (Funny how we are still expected to work when we have no internet, even though 90% of our applications require a network connection to function) So, some people started noticing this funny burning smell coming from the air conditioning, and soon afterwards they evacuated the entire building, and after screwing around outside for an hour and a half, I ended up going home 2 hours early. :D
I really want to go to Cedar Sky, but since most of the people I normally go to parties with aren't going, I might just end up staying at home. :(
I also am sorta interested in the meat-oriented party at SFU on friday, but since I'm a vegetarian, I'm concerned that they might kick me out due to distinct ideological differences. That and I sorta have moral objections to bacon, and ruining chocolate by covering bacon with it.